{"id":16448,"date":"2025-02-12T17:45:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T17:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16448"},"modified":"2025-02-12T17:45:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T17:45:33","slug":"trumps-shocking-purge-of-public-health-data-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16448","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s shocking\u00a0purge\u00a0of public health data, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“In the initial days of the Trump administration, officials scoured federal websites for any mention of what they deemed \u201cDEI\u201d keywords \u2014 terms<\/a> as generic as \u201cdiverse\u201d and \u201chistorically\u201d and even \u201cwomen.\u201d They soon identified reams of some of the country\u2019s most valuable public health data containing some of the targeted words, including language about LGBTQ+ people, and quickly took down much of it<\/a> \u2014 from surveys on obesity and suicide rates to real-time reports on immediate infectious disease threats like bird flu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The removal elicited a swift response from public health experts who warned that without this data, the country risked being in the dark about important health trends that shape life-and-death public health decisions made in communities across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of this data was restored<\/a> in a matter of days, but much of it was incomplete. In some cases, the raw data sheets were posted again, but the reference documents that would allow most people to decipher them were not. Meanwhile, health data continues to be taken down: The New York Times reported<\/a> last week that data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on bird flu transmission between humans and cats had been posted and then promptly removed.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/399319\/trump-cdc-health-data-removed-obesity-suicide<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“In the initial days of the Trump administration, officials scoured federal websites for any mention of what they deemed \u201cDEI\u201d keywords \u2014 terms as generic as \u201cdiverse\u201d and \u201chistorically\u201d and even \u201cwomen.\u201d They soon identified reams of some of the country\u2019s most valuable public health data containing some of the targeted words, including language about LGBTQ+ people, and quickly took down much of it \u2014 from surveys on obesity and suicide rates to real-time reports on immediate infectious disease threats like bird flu.
\nThe removal elicited a swift response from public health experts who warned that without this data, the country risked being in the dark about important health trends that shape life-and-death public health decisions made in communities across the country.<\/p>\n

Some of this data was restored in a matter of days, but much of it was incomplete. In some cases, the raw data sheets were posted again, but the reference documents that would allow most people to decipher them were not. Meanwhile, health data continues to be taken down: The New York Times reported last week that data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on bird flu transmission between humans and cats had been posted and then promptly removed.”<\/p>\n

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